9 Samuel Johnson Quotes on Wisdom

Samuel Johnson quotes on wisdom

28. A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

41. With these celestial Wisdom calms the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find.

46. He that would pass the latter part of life with honour and decency, must, when he is young, consider that he shall one day be old; and remember, when he is old, that he has once been young.

60. But, perhaps, the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious and useful truth in few words.

73. He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

104. The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.

179. No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had.

195. As I know more of mankind, I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man, upon easier terms than I was formerly.

205. The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things - the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.